ABC Intermountain Theatres opened the Regency Theatre on 19 July 1972. The $750,000 cinema featured 780 seats and a curved Tecnikote XR 171 screen measuring 50 feet wide by 22 feet high. Red curtains from R. L. Grosh & Sons rotated behind the screen instead of gathering at the sides. The booth featured dual Century 35/70mm projectors with Christie CHF xenon consoles and 3,000-watt bulbs. Cineplex Odeon relegated the Regency to dollar theater service on 6 June 1989, then closed it permanently on 25 March 1990. The former theater was later remodeled into a three-story office building.

Acting its age: Utah Shakespeare Festival in Cedar City is still golden at 50

By Cody Clark
Daily Herald, 26 June 2011

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beginning of Utah Shakespeare Festival:

Fred Adams remembers mapping out the festival in 1959 with his late wife

“I had a beautiful little white 1955 Ford Thunderbird. Barbara and I sat there with a little yellow legal pad talking about what we would want it to be.” (Fred Adams, founder and executive producer emeritus of the Utah Shakespeare Festival)

Adams visited leading Shakespeare festivals in San Diego, California; Stratford, Connecticut; Ashland, Oregon; and Ontario, Canada, and spent hours talking with their founders.

Adams stepped down from day-to-day management of the festival in 2005

first season of Utah Shakespeare Festival:

ran two weeks in 1962

a makeshift outdoor stage was built by the acting company between rehearsals

shows: “Hamlet,” “The Taming of the Shrew,” and “The Merchant of Venice”